Sunday, December 16, 2012

This and that

Again, I'm posting some links with a short description, as the links are piling up with no time to spend digging deeper.

Ireland: The Irish Times reports that the chairman of the Institute of Technology Tralee is said to be stepping down while an investigation into plagiarism found in his Master's thesis is investigated.

Canada: The Windsor Star reports that the dean for the Faculty of Education at the University of Windsor, Ontario, Canada, has taken administrative leave without pay. This is linked to an unspecified "academic integrity breach".

Utah, USA: The Salt-Lake Tribune reports on a case of English as a Second Language teachers at the Southern Utah University permitting their students to plagiarize.

PNAS published a report by Fang, Steen and Casadevall: "Misconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publications"Abstract:
"A detailed review of all 2,047
biomedical and life-science research articles indexed by PubMed as
retracted on May 3, 2012 revealed that only 21.3% of retractions
were attributable to error. In contrast, 67.4% of retractions were
attributable to misconduct, including fraud or suspected
fraud (43.4%), duplicate publication (14.2%), and plagiarism (9.8%).
Incomplete,
uninformative or misleading retraction
announcements have led to a previous underestimation of the role of
fraud in the ongoing
retraction epidemic. The percentage of
scientific articles retracted because of fraud has increased ∼10-fold
since 1975. Retractions
exhibit distinctive temporal and
geographic patterns that may reveal underlying causes. "

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